Summary of Judea Pearl & Dana Mackenzie's The Book of Why
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After decades of scientists denying causality as a real science because it could not be articulated mathematically, computer scientist Judea Pearl and his students initiated the Causal Revolution, a scientific breakthrough that embraces the human innate cognitive gift of understanding cause and effect and applies it to medical and social sciences. In The Book of Why (2020), Pearl and co-writer Dana Mackenzie browse through the history of statistics, probability, and paradoxes to showcase how human perception is steeped in causality and how emulating this retrospective thinking is the key to unlocking human-level decision-making for artificial intelligence. And it all starts with asking “Why?”
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